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Evaluation of an Early Radiomic Signature in Patients With Metastatic Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma Treated With First-line Chemotherapy

Pancreatic cancer, which has a poor prognosis, is becoming increasingly common in industrialized countries. Chemotherapy is the main treatment available for metastatic disease. Response to chemotherapy is currently assessed using imaging to monitor changes in the size of lesions undergoing treatment. Radiomics is a new method of analyzing quantitative data extracted from imaging that can be used to develop prediction algorithms and evaluate response to treatment. There is little robust radiomics data available for evaluating response to first-line treatments for pancreatic adenocarcinoma. Our main hypothesis is that quantifying tumor-related architectural changes could enable early identification of patients who will not respond to chemotherapy.